'Breaking Bad' exec: 'The show is about karma'

Breaking Bad's creator Vince Gilligan has suggested that the show is about "karma".

Gilligan explained that when he was developing the drama he wanted to focus on the effects of people's behaviour.

"If there's a larger lesson to Breaking Bad, it's that actions have consequences," he told the New York Times.

"If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end."

Gilligan continued: "I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen."